Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz by Dick Davis

Author:Dick Davis [Davis, Dick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101627174
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2013-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

THE ONE WHO GAVE YOUR LOVELY FACE ITS ROSY

red and white

Can give me peace, and patience to endure

my wretched plight;

The One who taught your curls their airy

arrogance can give

Me justice to redress the hopeless grief

in which I live.

Oh, I despaired of Farhad when his hand

assigned the rein

Of his bewildered heart to Shirin’s lips,

and her disdain.

If treasuries of gold are lacking, well,

contentment’s beckoned;

The One who gives the first to kings sees beggars

receive the second.

The world displays herself to us as such

a charming bride,

But life’s the dowry that men pay to lie

at her sweet side.

From now on it’s the cypress and the clear

streams’ banks for me;

Especially now spring’s promise scents the breeze

incessantly.

“Justice!” I cry. And since, Qavam al-din,

we’ve had to part,

This age’s grief, your absent face, usurp

Hafez’s heart.

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